Love interprets things in favor of the one loved.. the principle is clear enough in Paul’s description: “Love is patient.. never selfish, not quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs.. There is nothing love cannot facel there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.”
The trouble, of course, is that we must learn to love people.. Love must be patient when it is tempted (by the delays of other people) to be impatient. Love must not be selfish, even if other people are. Love does not take offence, though people are offensive sometimes. There are wrongs, but love won’t keep score. There are things to be faced, but nothing love can’t face, things to try love’s faith, discourage its hope, and call for its endurance; but it keeps right on trusting, hoping, and enduring. Love never ends.
- E Elliot, Passion and Purity
pk said,
November 7, 2009 at 12:23 am
I really really like this quote… I’m inspired to read this book! :P
rlndsdkn said,
November 18, 2009 at 7:51 am
haha it’s a book about a Christian couple who had to wait years before they got married, and they learned a lot of things along the way.